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On 11 February (Bahman 22), Khomeini appointed his own competing interim prime minister, Mehdi Bazargan, demanding, “since I have appointed him, he must be obeyed.” It was “God’s government,” he warned, disobedience against him or Bazargan was considered a “revolt against God.”During his time as a student and teacher, Khomeini had developed an “unorthodox personal philosophy” that drew from an obscure interpretation of Shia Islam which proposed that all power should derive from “a divinely appointed religious leader.
